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Re:After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rock... by Retric on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @10:44PM (#42563812)
It’s got more than twice the payload capacity of Falcon 9 to LEO and a 7m payload fairing vs 9m for Starship.

The real question is if there’s going to be enough demand to justify these systems. With enough reusability it might make sense to fly these things 2/3 empty, but that’s only going to be so profitable.

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Re:After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rock... by teractiveodular on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @01:03AM (#42564257)
New Glenn's main customer will be Kuiper, Amazon's answer to Starlink.
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Re:After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rock... by OhMeadhbh on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @01:13AM (#42564282)
But also whatever Amazon's equivalent of NanoRacks is 'cause Amazon also wants to feed their GSaaS (Ground-Station as a Service) play. I think long-term Kuiper is going to be BO's main customer, but selling lift capacity to a NanoRacks-alike could reduce the impact of a Kuiper schedule slip.
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Re:After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rock... by Retric on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:02AM (#42564441)
Starlink already scaled to 1M US households using Falcon 9 launches and this is twice as large. I think it’s reasonable to question just how many launches a competitor would support.
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